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(April 2) An elaborately planned marriage proposal almost became an engagement nightmare after the groom-to-be opened the ring box on the Brooklyn Bridge -- and the jewelry fell into traffic below.

Don Walling told NBC’s ‘Today’ show that he and his girlfriend, Gina Pellicani, had gone to dinner with family to celebrate his 29th birthday. He suggested a stroll across the bridge’s pedestrian walkway. With all of Manhattan before them -and with a relative videotaping the event - he took to one knee to ask her hand in marriage.